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Despite such sentiments, Dole was able to make use of her education. After graduation, she took on a government job as a White House consumer affairs lawyer. This was the first of many public sector jobs for Dole, who started her political life as a Lyndon Johnson Democrat and soon became a stalwart in the Reagan Republican cabinets...
...Congress, two Senators who have seen family members with mental illness benefit from modern treatments are trying to improve access to care for others. Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Democrat Paul Wellstone of Minnesota have introduced a bill that would force employers to provide the same level of coverage for mental and physical illnesses. Although the bill would represent the most meager of advances--it would help only those well enough to work--its passage will still require a monumental lobbying effort. Business groups are already working against it, saying it's part of a liberal package...
Such crimes have had political consequences. Some New York legislators, for instance, want to make it easier to force people into treatment. Such measures have a law-and-order feel, and politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer--a Democrat who barely won his race last year--have embraced them. But most advocates for the mentally ill point out that even if the potentially violent mentally ill could be committed more easily, there are still few places to take them...
...Congresswoman Nita Lowey, who patiently waits in the wings to run if the queen doesn't. Leaving aside the awkward body language (there was a lot of back patting as if each was trying to calm a colicky baby), here was Hillary in the red- hot center of Democrat Love, getting a warm but not ecstatic reception. The room was respectful of her recital of Democratic programs in a sing-song voice, not unlike Gore's, but not enthralled. One of the top party operatives, having shown her face, sneaked out before the speech. In the back, the deeply devoted...
...Vice President's defenders note that he was preaching the power of faith long before it was cool, at least among Democrats. In his 1992 best-selling environmental book, Gore wrote of "a spiritual crisis in modern civilization that seems to be based on an emptiness at its center" and declared his own "unshakable belief in God as creator and sustainer." But as Gore is learning, it can be tricky--particularly for a Democrat--to bare his soul as part of a campaign roll-out. Which may be why he felt it necessary to summon religion writers to the White...